Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out our weekly survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
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Many thanks to all readers who took the time to fill out last week’s survey on life rafts. Of those who replied, 63% have a life raft. Of those, 52% carry a six-person raft, 32% carry a 4 person raft and 16% carry a eight-person raft.\u00a0 72% have their rafts serviced at the manufacturer’s recommended intervals,\u00a0 21% do so when an authorized service facility is handy and 7% do so every four years. Among Cruising Compass readers, the most highly recommended life raft brands are Viking, Winslow and Switlik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out our weekly survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.\u00a0 Does your boat have a self-tacking jib? Many thanks to all readers who took the time to fill out last week’s survey on life rafts. Of those who replied, 63% have a life raft. Of those, 52% carry a six-person raft, 32% carry a 4 person raft and 16% carry a eight-person raft.\u00a0 72% have their rafts serviced at the manufacturer’s recommended intervals,\u00a0 21% do so when an authorized service facility is handy and 7% do so every four years. Among Cruising Compass readers, the most highly recommended life raft brands are Viking, Winslow and Switlik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41420,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41417\/revisions\/41420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}